Unwhite

Author : Meredith McCarroll
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820353361
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unwhite written by Meredith McCarroll and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Appalachia resides in the American imagination at the intersections of race and class in a very particular way, in the tension between deep historic investments in seeing the region as "pure white stock" and as deeply impoverished and backward. Meredith McCarroll's Unwhite analyzes the fraught location of Appalachians within the southern and American imaginaries, building on studies of race in literary and cinematic characterizations of the American South. Not only do we know what "rednecks" and "white trash" are, McCarroll argues, we rely on the continued use of such categories in fashioning our broader sense of self and other. Further, we continue to depend upon the existence of the region of Appalachia as a cultural construct. As a consequence, Appalachia has long been represented in the collective cultural history as the lowest, the poorest, the most ignorant, and the most laughable community. McCarroll complicates this understanding by asserting that white privilege remains intact while Appalachia is othered through reliance on recognizable nonwhite cinematic stereotypes. Unwhite demonstrates how typical characterizations of Appalachian people serve as foils to set off and define the "whiteness" of the non-Appalachian southerners. In this dynamic, Appalachian characters become the racial other. Analyzing the representation of the people of Appalachia in films such as Deliverance, Cold Mountain, Medium Cool, Norma Rae, Cape Fear, The Killing Season, and Winter's Bone through the critical lens of race and specifically whiteness, McCarroll offers a reshaping of the understanding of the relationship between racial and regional identities.

Author : Andrzej Jarczewski
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527545458
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Verbal Philosophy of Real Time written by Andrzej Jarczewski and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-15 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines reality using verbs in their real time, which, like a segment of clock time, runs from the occurrence of the cause to the inevitable effect. As argued here, errors in our decisions often result from a ‘noun approach’ to the problem. A good decision depends on whether it is made on the basis of real premises and whether the decision-maker is able to define what is ‘good’. These two eternal issues, ‘truth’ and ‘goodness’ are the subject of inquiry here. The findings presented in this book invalidate the paradigm of ‘noun philosophy’ of the 20th century. It will appeal to philosophers, as well as managers and decision makers.

Author : James Oswald Dykes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 904 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The British and Foreign Evangelical Review written by James Oswald Dykes and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tim Lindemann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110779439
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Rural Cinema written by Tim Lindemann and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-02-19 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: n the past decade, spanning from the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis to the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, rural poverty in the United States has risen dramatically. The impact of the pandemic is set to intensify these inequalities as the decades of neoliberal dismantling of public healthcare and other social institutions leave inhabitants of impoverished rural areas particularly vulnerable. Even before this current exacerbation, representations of rural landscape in American cinema have sought to spatially visualize the country’s social inequalities and focus on the victims of poverty and marginalization. The films discussed in this monograph, Ballast (2008), Winter’s Bone (2010), Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012), and Leave No Trace (2018), address deep rural poverty in a complex manner and facilitate an interactive, social understanding of landscape. New Rural Cinema suggest a novel way of looking at landscape in cinema that responds to and guides its readers through this recent development in American Independent film. It views the chosen films as expressions of a growing awareness of the dire inequality caused by neoliberal capitalism in the United States and the role landscape plays both in its mechanisms of social exclusion as well as in its collective contestation.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vital and Health Statistics written by and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kenneth G. Keppel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Methods and Response Characteristics written by Kenneth G. Keppel and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Selma Taffel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780840602510
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Method of Imputing Length of Gestation on Birth Certificates written by Selma Taffel and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lavina Dhingra Shankar
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781439904558
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Part, Yet Apart written by Lavina Dhingra Shankar and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Maire Messenger Davies
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748627189
Total Pages : 208 pages
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Download or read book Practical Research Methods for Media and Cultural Studies written by Maire Messenger Davies and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2006-07-18 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many very intelligent people don't like dealing with numbers. Similarly, many gifted scientists are not especially interested in studying people and their cultural behaviour. In this book, we argue that being interested in people and their cultures, and helping students and others to use numbers to pursue these interests, are not mutually exclusive. Research methods are becoming an increasingly important requirement for students of all kinds. But many students, particularly those in the humanities, struggle with concepts drawn from the social sciences and find quantitative and statistical information inaccessible and daunting. Nonetheless, such concepts are found in nearly all areas of society, from market research and opinion polls to psychological studies of human behaviour. This book aims to provide a simple guide to the process of conducting research in the humanities, with special reference to media and culture, from the planning stage, through the data gathering, to the analysis and interpretation of results: 'planning it', 'doing it' and 'understanding it'. The book aims to show how students' own choice of research topic can be refined into a manageable research question and how the most appropriate methodologies can be applied. Each section draws on actual examples from research that the authors and their students have conducted. Topics covered include: choosing a research question and method; instrument design and pilot data; practical procedures; research with children; looking at statistics; and interpretation of results.Features:*Based on the authors' practical experience as researchers and teachers and is thus accessible, practical and 'how to'.*Includes students' own work as examples.*Bridges the 'divide' between social science and humanities research methods and will therefore appeal to a broad range of students and teachers.

Author : Jacquelyn Y. McLendon
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813915531
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Color in the Fiction of Jessie Fauset and Nella Larsen written by Jacquelyn Y. McLendon and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical examination of Fauset's Plum Bun and Comedy:American Style, and Larsen's Quicksand, recovering a subversive element in the Harlem Renaissance writers whose work was revived by feminists in the late 1970s. McLendon (English, College of William and Mary) explores how the white writers' 19th century stereotype of the "tragic mulatto" is reinvented in the work of the two writers and transformed into a concept of doubleness representing African-American experience. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR